How will your applications & infrastructure perform with a virtual workforce?

With the ever growing need and flexibility of Work from Home approaches, organisations need to ensure they consider additional capacity and requirements. A hot topic within the industry is application performance under less than ideal networking conditions.

As a LoadRunner or Performance Center practitioner, you can help your team prepare for a remote workforce. Network Virtualisation is a free add-on capability which enables you to simulate realistic network performance characteristics. Executing a load test to model users connecting over varied (and potentially slow) internet and VPN connections will help you identify impacts or bottlenecks in the network or application configuration.

Join our technical consultants in this webinar to learn how to effectively incorporate Network Virtualisation into your performance tests. We’ll also touch on how LoadRunner Cloud can help with burst capacity, and share how you can quickly set up some simple external monitoring in AppPulse, using your VUGen scripts.

AGENDA
• How to use Network Virtualisation to model “working from home” scenarios when using LoadRunner
• How to burst capacity (or offload network traffic) using LoadRunner Cloud
• How to use VUGen scripts for production application monitoring

Events and sudden market shifts can dramatically change the business outcomes for many companies. Today's environment is forcing a transition from the physical world to the digital and virtual world. Companies are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives in order to just survive, while IT organizations are being asked to do more with less. Knowing how to quickly, efficiently, and successfully release and deploy software is critical for the business to succeed.

Come join us as Julian Fish and Mark Levy provide the four key steps you need to implement in order to successfully release and deploy software in today's environment. In this live webinar you will learn:

• Why delivery velocity alone is not enough
• Where cost savings can be made without impacting efficiency
• What successful release governance means to your business – and the risks associated with poor governance
• How to ensure deliverables are adding significant value to your customers and stakeholders

The number of employees working from home has skyrocketed under the current conditions which means organizations must ensure additional capacity requirements are met. This also means that application performance has suffered due to less than ideal networking conditions.

The Micro Focus LoadRunner Family can easily help your team ensure business continuity during uncertain times using Network Virtualization to simulate realistic network performance characteristics. Executing a load test to model users connecting over diverse and potentially slow internet and VPN connections will help you identify impacts or bottlenecks in the network or application configuration.

Join us to learn how to effectively incorporate Network Virtualization into your performance tests to address burst capacity and see how you can easily set up some simple external monitoring. We will show:

• How to use Network Virtualization to model “working from home” scenarios
• How to burst capacity (or offload network traffic)
• How Network Virtualization Analytics can help you optimize user experience

With the change in software development practices from waterfall to Agile to DevOps, the definition of “shift-left” testing needs to expand and evolve just as the entire development lifecycle has evolved. Performance testing is becoming a team sport/effort. Everyone, including RnD, is responsible for end-to-end quality. To avoid having performance testing be a bottleneck, teams must shift-left performance testing and get the developers and devtesters invested in quality earlier.

Join this session to learn how the LoadRunner family enables shift-left performance testing with tools specifically designed for developers and performance engineers to work together seamlessly, while reusing assets, sharing comprehensive, real-time analytics, and without leaving their usual developer ecosystem. See how easy it is to plan, run, and scale performance testing leveraging existing investments in testing infrastructure.

From providing greater context and clarity with data and visuals, to creating more accurate traceability throughout the entire SDLC and encouraging cross-functional collaboration, VSM and DevOps done right can lead to greater QA and release/operations and reveal real business benefits.

Test Automation is considered one of the key aspects to deliver the speed and reliability of any continuous delivery pipeline and yet organizations recognize that on average 20-30% of their testing is fully automated.

When asked about their major challenges to increasing automation coverage, the lack of proper skillsets combined with the cost of building and maintaining automation assets are at the top of the priority list.

In this webinar, learn how Micro Focus is using Artificial Intelligence to deliver revolutionary advances in functional testing that will enable testers to easily keep up with the speed of application changes across multiple devices and platforms while reducing the cost of building and maintaining automation assets.

Maintaining high performance levels that enhance the customer experience, keeping up with the pace of business, and managing end-to-end performance makes everyone, not just performance engineers, a steward of product performance. As the sphere of ownership expands, so does the number of tools – and the amount of data.

This session looks at how Micro Focus LoadRunner has evolved to enable every persona, from left to right, to participate in performance testing. Insights include how to effectively leverage assets, collect, centralize and analyze data from different sources, and how the solutions will evolve.

The continuous integration/continuous delivery market has gone through many changes since DevOps came on the scene, but it remains the backbone of the DevOps toolchain. Application release automation has also joined the ranks of must-have DevOps technologies.

So where does the market stand currently and what can we expect to see in the next generation of CI/CD/ARA tools? This webinar delves into the latest in the CI/CD/ARA space and offers a glimpse at what’s to come.

With the ever growing need and flexibility of Work from Home approaches, organisations need to ensure they consider additional capacity and requirements. A hot topic within the industry is application performance under less than ideal networking conditions.

As a LoadRunner or Performance Center practitioner, you can help your team prepare for a remote workforce. Network Virtualisation is a free add-on capability which enables you to simulate realistic network performance characteristics. Executing a load test to model users connecting over varied (and potentially slow) internet and VPN connections will help you identify impacts or bottlenecks in the network or application configuration.

Join our technical consultants in this webinar to learn how to effectively incorporate Network Virtualisation into your performance tests. We’ll also touch on how LoadRunner Cloud can help with burst capacity, and share how you can quickly set up some simple external monitoring in AppPulse, using your VUGen scripts.

AGENDA
• How to use Network Virtualisation to model “working from home” scenarios when using LoadRunner
• How to burst capacity (or offload network traffic) using LoadRunner Cloud
• How to use VUGen scripts for production application monitoring

Effective IT organizations are recognized as having strong and efficient DevOps and agile development practices in place. The need for these practices is not in question. The question is how DevOps can be implemented consistently in a hybrid IT environment when applications and systems are constantly changing. It's like trying to change a car's tires while driving down a highway.

Join us as Bola Rotibi, Reseach Director at CCS Insight, provides observations and recommendations for successful Continuous Delivery practices across the enterprise. Bola will draw from the research conducted for a recent CCS Insight whitepaper, "Software Release: A Point of Control for Delivering in a Hybrid IT Landscape" and interviews with organizations engaged on successful IT transformations. Topics covered will include architectural and operational insights, challenges operating in hybrid IT environments, best practices in release orchestration, and more.

The benefits of implementing Agile and DevOps have been well proven for years now, yet a large number of organizations are still struggling to scale DevOps practices across the enterprise. Why? Because enterprise IT has to support hundreds of applications across many different, highly-regulated, environments all operating at different speeds. But going fast does not always equate to efficiency. A multimodal approach to software delivery, with multiple deployments in different places happening at different speeds works fine, as long as the organization understands what they need to transform now, what can wait until later, and what should be ignored.

Join SD Times and Micro Focus as we deflate the hype around DevOps and provide a no-nonsense, real-world view of how your organization can gain operational efficiencies and deliver value to your customers.

Organizations undertaking DevOps transformations often focus on the benefits that adopting open source tools can bring in terms of cost savings. Unfortunately many frequently ignore the administrative and technical overhead of managing multiple Git and Jira repositories across an enterprise. Numerous distinct repositories are often created, one per team, leading to repository sprawl, lack of process consistency and limited oversight. This can in turn cause reduced organizational delivery velocity.

In this live webinar we will discuss and demonstrate how multiple Git and Jira instances can be managed from process centric tools, reducing overhead without impacting development velocity. You’ll learn how to consolidate multiple repositories and regain control of your development ecosystem, without impacting the day-to-day lives of your development teams.

The fifth episode of the DevOps Transformation series will expand on the topics covered earlier in the DevOps Transformation series (Pipeline Automation, Release Orchestration, Value Stream Management and Continuous Code Inspection) explaining how all elements can be brought together to provide an end-to-end lifecycle management approach.

This webinar will explain how:
• Demand capture and prioritization drives significant organizational value
• Rapid development and delivery improves response rates and quality
• Insight and control across the entire product lifecycle can be easily achieved

The latest edition of the World Quality Report 2019-20 (WQR) has arrived! This annual report is the only global study that analyzes responses from over 1700 QA/testing managers, CIOs, and other IT Professionals in 32 countries, across ten industry sectors, and discusses the trends shaping QA and testing today, along with recommendations for addressing tomorrow’s challenges. This year’s report finds that business growth and outcomes are now the top QA objective for agile and DevOps adoption.

Join this webinar as we discuss all the key findings from this year’s report, including:
• AI is gaining momentum
• Challenges exist in achieving test automation ROI
• Focus on testing security remains
• Automation is making a difference, but has brought specific challenges

As business requirements and competitive pressures increase, organizations are more and more implementing a DevOps strategy. These DevOps transformations often start with continuous integration and continuous delivery. However, significant benefits can gained by shifting quality and validation practices left - into code review, inspection and verification.

Join Micro Focus experts as we discuss and demonstrate:
• How to easily implement code inspection practices
• How an integrated build and review solution can streamline application development
• How these shift left practices can flow into a larger DevOps toolchain

High performing enterprises have used DevOps transformations to improve efficiency, increase delivery velocity, and reduce time to market. Practices such as Agile project management, continuous integration, and continuous delivery and automation have simplified lifecycle management and application delivery. But as organizations continue to mature, lifecycle management improvement practices such as Value Stream Management have increasingly gained traction as a way for enterprises to align IT & business goals, validate IT deliverables, and track enterprise process efficiency.

Join us for this live webinar as Julian Fish, Director of Product Management, explains:
• How Value Stream Management practices can positively affect your organization
• How to align DevOps practices with business objectives
• How end to end value can be delivered in an efficient manner

Successful DevOps transformation programs enable enterprises to simplify application delivery, increasing delivery cadence, quality, and visibility. These enterprises must create toolchains that include build, deployment, and test automation technologies to implement CI/CD pipelines. While single toolchains can be relatively easy to manage, enterprises increasingly need to support multiple toolchains and process approaches.

In this live webinar, Julian Fish, Director of Product Management, demonstrates how to utilize additional orchestration capabilities for compliance, control, and integration to ensure a successful enterprise DevOps transformation.

Join us to learn:
• How process transformation is required to scale DevOps pipelines from Dev to Operations
• How to integrate and orchestrate multiple tools from a single control and governance layer
• Why insight into activities across multiple tools and cross application dependencies are key to successful enterprise release management

What separates successful DevOps initiatives from unsuccessful ones? The answer to this and many other questions will be examined in this new research webinar presented by leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).

Join us as Dennis Drogseth, VP of Research at EMA provides observations and recommendations for successful DevOps implementations. Dennis will draw from a recent EMA survey of 400 global respondents spanning development, operations, IT service management (ITSM) teams and executive IT.

This webinar will address DevOps initiatives from many perspectives. Topics covered will include pipeline activities, stakeholders, technological impacts including analytics and automation, roadblocks in terms of both tools and teams, organizational perspectives, best practices, and more.

Digital transformation can be a costly failure without proper controls. How can we learn from others who have succeeded in the journey to avoid repeating mistakes?

The IT4IT™ Reference Architecture is a vendor-neutral standard maintained by The Open Group that provides a comprehensive framework for delivering value to the business.

Join us for this webcast with Lars Rossen, Micro Focus Fellow and co-inventor of the IT4IT standard, as he takes you on a fast-paced tour of the nine value streams that tie together the essential functions of IT.

Learn how each value stream delivers a measurable improvement to controlling and delivering digital services, by connecting enterprise DevOps and hybrid IT management with built-in security and end-to-end insight.

Enterprises undertaking a DevOps transformation must look to implement tool-chains and pipelines to streamline application delivery. However, tool-chain integration and pipeline management provide little value if delivered in isolation.

Join Julian Fish, Director of Product Management, in this live webinar to see how an orchestrated and automated pipeline can drive multiple tool-chains and be implemented in minutes. Please join us to learn:

• How to quickly create a deployment pipeline that spans build, deployment, and test
• Best practices for component reuse, artifact management, and process definition to simplify repeatability
• How application, database, and test automation can be orchestrated from a single, easy to use dashboard

In today’s world of software development and IT, there is a continuous race between agility and quality. In many cases when agility wins, the result is a faster delivery with lower quality.

Micro Focus ALM Octane allows you to deliver high quality products in an agile world, whilst seamlessly integrating into your Agile and DevOps processes and tool-chain.

Join this live demo to:
• Learn what’s new with ALM Octane
• Discover how to leverage existing assets when transforming to Agile
• Get your questions answered by our product management team, during an interactive Q&A

Delivering business value in the digital economy requires a high-speed approach. With our solutions, you can unleash the power of DevOps across your hybrid IT landscape — quickly bringing innovative ideas to life at the pace your business demands. Now speed and quality can go hand in hand. Find more information on Micro Focus application delivery management solutions at https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/trend/enterprise-devops